Mamata says she will move court on January 6 against 'inhumane' conduct of SIR

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Monday (January 5, 2026) said she would determination tribunal against what she described arsenic the "inhumane" behaviour of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful the State.

Addressing a nationalist gathering successful Sagar Island successful South 24 Parganas district, she alleged that fear, harassment, and administrative arbitrariness linked to the workout had led to deaths and hospitalisations of respective people.

"We are moving tribunal time against the inhumane attraction and the death of truthful galore radical owed to the SIR," she said. "If allowed, I volition besides determination the Supreme Court and plead arsenic a communal idiosyncratic against this inhumane exercise. I americium besides a trained lawyer," she said.

Ms. Banerjee, however, did not clarify whether the petition would beryllium filed by her personally, the State Government, oregon the Trinamool Congress.

She alleged that names were being "arbitrarily struck off" the elector rolls without valid reasons, turning a regular administrative process into a root of fearfulness up of the Assembly elections.

The CM claimed that terminally sick radical and aged citizens were being forced to basal successful agelong queues to beryllium they were morganatic voters. "How would BJP leaders consciousness if idiosyncratic made their aged parents basal successful enactment to beryllium their identity?" CM asked.

"Since the SIR began, truthful galore radical person died owed to fear, and respective others are successful hospital," she claimed. Ms. Banerjee besides took connected the BJP implicit alleged favoritism against Bengali-speaking migrant workers successful the States it rules.

"I situation them to termination me, but I volition not halt speaking successful my parent tongue," she said, asking whether speaking Bengali has go a transgression successful the country. The CM alleged that the BJP induces radical with pre-election sops and indulges successful repression aft winning the polls.

"They volition springiness ₹10,000 earlier elections and usage the bulldozer erstwhile it's over," she said. "You tin torture arsenic overmuch arsenic you want, but it won’t output immoderate results," she added.